Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz

Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz (born 1972) – graduated in 1996 from Lublin’s M. Curie-Skłodowska University with an MA degree in English. He received his PhD from the University of Warsaw in 2000. Since then he has been teaching at Warsaw University’s Institute of English Studies. His main academic interests are: Medieval and Renaissance English literature, the poetics and cultural context of oral literature, the folk and literary ballad, modern poetry, the refl ection of literature’s historical and cultural background, especially the function of time and space in poetic imagery, scansion and metre, literature and music, science fiction and fantasy. He is the author of over twenty academic publications, which include studies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.